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by timerol 2248 days ago
Here's a personal claim: Meine Ehre heißt Treue. (My honour is called loyalty.) Seems like a upstanding thing to say, but it's banned as a slogan in Austria and Germany, because of its relation to the SS.

The words chosen are relatively vague and could mean a number of things, but in context both this and the 14 words are clearly part of the white supremacist movement. You can't ignore the history and context of language.

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> Meine Ehre heißt Treue. (My honour is called loyalty.) Seems like a upstanding thing to say

Not at all. It's literally boasting that one will blindly follow orders, even those that would be considered dishonorable.